Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-15
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


England has about 80, 900 blind
people.
The exports of the United States
to Europe constitute in value more
than eighty per cent. of the entire ex-
port trade of the country.
"A new amusement is provided at
the London fairs, known as s.topsy-
turvy." Passengers are securely
strapped in a barrel and then rolled
about
"A station is to be established in
St. Petersburg for the examination of
food materials offered for sale in the
city. 1t will be under the charge of
scientists appointed by the govern
ment.
There is watch in Swiss mu-
scum only three-sixteenths of an inch
in diameter. inserted in the top of
pencil case. Its little dial not only in
dictates hours, minutes and seconds,
but also days of the month
In the City of Mexico every body
lives over shop, if the house be two
stories, or uses the lower floor for
servants, etc. Even millionaires often
rent the ground floor of their swell res
idences for business purposes Boston
Budget.
The thistle. that notorious pest of
the agriculturist, now covers extensive
tracts of country in Southern Chill.
1t was introduced by an Englishman.
who imported bushel of the seed and
sowed it under the delusion that it
would be valuable as fodder plant
N Y Ledger
The highest number of works ex-
hibited in the Champs Elysees was in
1880. when the total was 1859. COM
prising sop pictures and 731 sculpt-
urcs and medals. The grand total of
works of all kinds exhibited in the
salons since 1872 is "a. 408. including
"a. 147 pictures.
"A law has recently been enacted
in Germany which forbids the use of
colors or color preparations containing
antimony, arsenic, barium, cadmium,
copper, coraline. gamboge. lead, mer-
curry. picric acid, tin. uranium or zinc,
in the making of any article of food or
'confectionery.-M Y Ledger.
"A Rio Janeiro journal asserts that
on a large hemp farm in Brazil twenty
monkeys have been taught to cut the
hemp and prepare it for sale. 1t is
added that the animals are preferred
to negroes, because they work much
faster and the cost of feeding them is
trif1ing. - Christian Union.
Salmon are becoming very scarce
in the upper Rhine. Though vast num-
bers of the fish 90 down the river to
the sea, only small portion ever re-
turn again, for the Dutch fishermen in
tercept the salmon on their way back
by most ingenious and complete sys-
tenn of nets. Lately the Dutch caught
over twelve thousand salmon in week,
so that the German and Swiss fisher
men higher up the river complain Bit
terly.
The remains of cemetery belong
ing to the age of the Gauls have re-
Gently been discovered in Paris, in the
old Faubourg 81. German, at the cor
ner of the Rues Rocrof and Bellechasse.
Fifty-two tombs have been found with
of women and children. Many weap-
ons and implements have also been
nearthed-swords, lanceS and bronze
and iron instruments of all descrip-
.tions. -BrookIyn Eagle.
The dog-messenger corps for the
Germany army is being carefully
trained just now by the Schwerin gar
rison. Swift and intelligent dogs are
chosen and are taken out by the
patrols regularly to the outposts.
where pencil-notes are tied to their
back to given point. When any of
the garrison are maneuvering at night
the dogs accompany the advanced
sentinels of the bivouac and are
taught to watch for and bark violently
at the faintest sign of any one APP
preaching the camp.
DR.. Frank Boas, in report on the !
that the principal figure in the mythol-
ogy of several of them is raven. who !
created all things, not for the benefit !
of mankind, but to revenge him. |
self" Cannibalism is practiced by |
some tribes in connection with the |
winter dances. and there is |
Kwakiutl tradition that one of their |
ancestors descended from Heaven, |
wearing a ring of red cedar bark, and |
taught the people the cannibal cere-
monies. The ceremonis have been |
adopted only in part by the Qomaks,
who content themselves with. eating |
''artificiar' bodies, which they pre-
pare 'by sewing dried halibut to
human skeleton. ID Boston Herald.